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Columbia Gorge Discovery Center, The Dalles, Oregon.
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Columbia Gorge Discovery Center ...
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The 48,200-square-foot Columbia Gorge Discovery Center and Wasco County Historical Museum opened in May 1997 and is located at Columbia River Mile (RM) 186. The Center is in Wasco County at the western edge of The Dalles, Oregon, just east of Crates Point. Upstream is Rocky Island, a campsite of Lewis and Clark, and across the Columbia is the Washington community of Murdock. The Discovery Center's 54-acre property has been restored with native vegetation, showing off ninety blooming native plant species "that are adapted to the dry, windblown environment of the eastern end of the gorge" [CGDC website, 2018].
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Views ...
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Columbia Gorge Discovery Center, The Dalles, Oregon.
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Inside, Columbia Gorge Discovery Center, The Dalles, Oregon.
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Wagon, Columbia Gorge Discovery Center, The Dalles, Oregon.
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Covered Wagon, Columbia Gorge Discovery Center, The Dalles, Oregon.
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Wagon, Columbia Gorge Discovery Center, The Dalles, Oregon.
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Native vegetation, Columbia Gorge Discovery Center, The Dalles, Oregon.
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"Point of Decision", Columbia Gorge Discovery Center, The Dalles, Oregon.
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Bronze Elk, Columbia Gorge Discovery Center, The Dalles, Oregon.
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Kolk Lake, Columbia Gorge Discovery Center, The Dalles, Oregon.
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- California Condor ...
- "Columbia Rediviva" Model ...
- Ernest A. Kuck Wing ...
- "Harvest Queen" ...
- Ice Age ...
- Kids Explorer Room ...
- Lewis and Clark ...
- Lewis and Clark, Cedar Dugout Canoe ...
- Live Raptors ...
- "Oneonta" ...
- Oregon Trail "Land Route" ...
- Oregon Trail "River Route" ...
- Running Fruit Ladders ...
- Sternwheelers on the Upper Columbia ...
- The Dalles Street Scene ...
- Umatilla House ...
- Views from the Discovery Center ...
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California Condor ...
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California Condor, Columbia Gorge Discovery Center, The Dalles, Oregon.
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California Condor, Columbia Gorge Discovery Center, The Dalles, Oregon.
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California Condor, Columbia Gorge Discovery Center, The Dalles, Oregon.
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"Columbia Rediviva" Model ...
The Columbia River was given the name it bears today in May 1792, by American Captain Robert Gray, after his ship, the Columbia Rediviva crossed the bar and entered the Columbia River. According to the Columbia Gorge Discovery Center's display, the Columbia Rediviva was built in 1773 by James Briggs, Hobarts Landing, Scituate, Massachusetts. The ship was 83 feet 2 inches long, had a 24 foot 2 inch beam, and a 12 foot 1 inch depth of hold. It weighed 212 tons.
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"Columbia Rediviva" model, Columbia Gorge Discovery Center, The Dalles, Oregon.
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The 1/4" = 1' scale model was built by William E. Hitchcock, 1997, and provided by the American Marine Model Gallery, Inc., Salem, Massachusetts.
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Ernest A. Kuck Wing ...
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Ernest A. Kuck was a financial donnor to the building of the Discovery Center.
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Ernest A. Kuck Wing, Columbia Gorge Discovery Center, The Dalles, Oregon.
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"Harvest Queen" ...
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There were two "Harvest Queen's" on the Columbia in the years of the steamers. The first "Harvest Queen" was built in Celilo in 1878 and dismantled in 1899. She was one of four steamers ("Dallas City", "Harvest Queen", "Maria", and the "Sarah Dixon") to go through the Cascade Locks when it opened on November 5, 1896. The second "Harvest Queen" was built in 1900 and operated until 1927. In 1921 this "Harvest Queen" was the last steamer to run from Portland to Astoria.
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Model, "Harvest Queen", Columbia Gorge Discovery Center, The Dalles, Oregon.
The "Harvest Queen" was one of four steamers to go through the Cascade Locks on opening day in 1896.
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Ice Age ...
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Columbian mammoth,
Ice Age exhibit, Columbia Gorge Discovery Center, The Dalles, Oregon.
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The Ice Age exhibit includes a
life-size 13-foot Columbian mammoth.
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Short-faced Bear and Black Bear skulls, Ice Age exhibit, Columbia Gorge Discovery Center, The Dalles, Oregon.
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Kids Explorer Room ...
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Kids Explorer Room, Columbia Gorge Discovery Center, The Dalles, Oregon.
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Kids Explorer Room, Columbia Gorge Discovery Center, The Dalles, Oregon.
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Corps of Discovery Barge, Kids Explorer Room, Columbia Gorge Discovery Center, The Dalles, Oregon.
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Lewis and Clark ...
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Display, Lewis and Clark exhibit, Columbia Gorge Discovery Center, The Dalles, Oregon.
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Display, Lewis and Clark exhibit, Columbia Gorge Discovery Center, The Dalles, Oregon.
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Lead canisters, Lewis and Clark exhibit, Columbia Gorge Discovery Center, The Dalles, Oregon.
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Lewis and Clark, Cedar Dugout Canoe ...
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Cedar Dugout Canoe, Lewis and Clark exhibit, Columbia Gorge Discovery Center, The Dalles, Oregon.
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Cedar Dugout Canoe, Lewis and Clark exhibit, Columbia Gorge Discovery Center, The Dalles, Oregon.
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Cedar Dugout Canoe, Lewis and Clark exhibit, Columbia Gorge Discovery Center, The Dalles, Oregon.
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Cedar Dugout Canoe, Lewis and Clark exhibit, Columbia Gorge Discovery Center, The Dalles, Oregon.
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Live Raptors ...
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American Kestrel, Columbia Gorge Discovery Center, The Dalles, Oregon.
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Red-tailed Hawk, Columbia Gorge Discovery Center, The Dalles, Oregon.
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Red-tailed Hawk, Columbia Gorge Discovery Center, The Dalles, Oregon.
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Great Horned Owl, Columbia Gorge Discovery Center, The Dalles, Oregon.
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Great Horned Owl, Columbia Gorge Discovery Center, The Dalles, Oregon.
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Rough-legged Hawk, dark morph, Columbia Gorge Discovery Center, The Dalles, Oregon.
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"Oneonta" ...
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The "Oneonta" was a Mississippi-river-boat-style side-wheeler built in 1863 by Samuel Forman for the Oregon Steam Navigation Company. The "Oneonta" traveled between the Cascade Rapids and the lower part of Celilo Falls. The "Oneonta" retired in 1877 and served as a barge until being abandoned in 1880.
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"Oneonta" detail, Columbia Gorge Discovery Center exhibit, The Dalles, Oregon.
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Oregon Trail "Land Route" ...
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Exhibit, Oregon Trail "Land Route", Columbia Gorge Discovery Center, The Dalles, Oregon.
Around the south side of Mount Hood on the Barlow Road.
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Exhibit, Oregon Trail "Land Route", Columbia Gorge Discovery Center, The Dalles, Oregon.
Around the south side of Mount Hood on the Barlow Road.
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Oregon Trail "River Route" ...
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Exhibit, Oregon Trail "River Route", Columbia Gorge Discovery Center, The Dalles, Oregon.
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Exhibit, Oregon Trail "River Route", Columbia Gorge Discovery Center, The Dalles, Oregon.
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Exhibit, Oregon Trail "River Route", Columbia Gorge Discovery Center, The Dalles, Oregon.
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Running Fruit Ladders ...
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"Running Fruit Ladders" is a "Large Art Celebrating Small Farms" display created by Mosier artist John Maher. There are dozens of brightly painted wooden fruit ladders.
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"Running Fruit Ladders", Columbia Gorge Discovery Center, The Dalles, Oregon.
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Sternwheelers on the Upper Columbia ...
Sternwheelers on the
UPPER COLUMBIA
"The lure of the river casts its spell."
Fred W. Wilson, "The Lure of the River" (1969)
"Steamboats proved crucial to the commerce of the Columbia River east of The Dalles. In 1858 Robert R. Thompson, Indian Agent, and Lawrence W. Coe hauled in boilers and fittings to build a steamboat near the mouth of the Deschutes River. In spite of rapids and currents, Capt. Leonard White took command and ran the vessel on a regular schedule from Celilo Landing to Wallula above the mouth of the Walla Walla River.
The Colonel Wright proved the value of steamboats for hauling freight and passengers through the Columbia Basin. With the mining rush of the early 1860s, she earned as much as $2,500 in fares on a single up-river journey. Measuring 110 feet long and 21 feet wide, the Colonel Wright was worn out and dismantled in 1865. Several competing vessels came on duty in the 1860s. Steamboating persisted for the next sixty years until the advent of highways and truck traffic in the 1920s."
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Exhibit, "Sternwheelers on the Upper Columbia", Columbia Gorge Discovery Center, The Dalles, Oregon.
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Exhibit detail, "Sternwheelers on the Upper River", Columbia Gorge Discovery Center exhibit, The Dalles, Oregon.
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Exhibit, "Sternwheelers on the Upper Columbia", Columbia Gorge Discovery Center, The Dalles, Oregon.
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The Dalles Street Scene ...
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Exhibit, "The Dalles Street Scene", Columbia Gorge Discovery Center, The Dalles, Oregon.
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Exhibit, "The Dalles Street Scene", Columbia Gorge Discovery Center, The Dalles, Oregon.
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Exhibit, "The Dalles Street Scene", Columbia Gorge Discovery Center, The Dalles, Oregon.
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Umatilla House ...
Built in 1857, the Umatilla House was known as the "best hotel west of Minneapolis and north of San Francisco". It was located in The Dalles, Oregon, on the northeast corner of First ("Main") and Union streets, right across from the steamboat landing.
Travelers would disembark from the steamboats and head up to the hotel. For folks continuing east, The Dalles-Celilo portage trains left from the Umatilla House. Later, when the Union Pacific railroad came through, the tracks were laid in front of the hotel's front door. The trains would stop at Umatilla House for their passengers to have a meal.
Umatilla House
Handley & Sinnott, Prop'rs
This popular house, centrally located,
Near the Steamboat Landing
& Railroad Depot, Has been recently
enlarged and improved
and will now accommodate
300 GUESTS
It will be conducted as heretofore, as a
FIRST CLASS HOUSE,
and the patronage of the traveling public
is respectfully solicited ...
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Exhibit, "Umatilla House", Columbia Gorge Discovery Center, The Dalles, Oregon.
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Exhibit, "Umatilla House", Columbia Gorge Discovery Center, The Dalles, Oregon.
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Exhibit, "Umatilla House", Columbia Gorge Discovery Center, The Dalles, Oregon.
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Exhibit, "Umatilla House", Columbia Gorge Discovery Center, The Dalles, Oregon.
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Views from the Discovery Center ...
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East side o f Crates Point, as seen from Columbia Gorge Discovery Center, Oregon.
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Rocky Island from the Columbia Gorge Discovery Center, The Dalles, Oregon.
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From the Journals of Lewis and Clark ...
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Clark, October 28, 1805 ...
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